Fishing Reports

LAKE HARTWELL IS DOWN 10.10 FEET, CLEAR, 50’S

Water Level is down 10.10 feet below full pool. The water temperatures are in the mid 50's but look for it to warm back up with the warming trend we have coming. These fish have now moved back out deeper but have stayed ...

LAKE LANIER IS DOWN 9.9 FEET, THE CREEKS ARE STAINED AND THE MAIN LAKE IS CLEAR & 50’s

Bass fishing on Lake Lanier has been strong this week and has recovered well after the cold front we had last week. We are really starting to see some great activity out ...

WEST POINT LAKE IS DOWN 2.66 FEET, CLEAR & 60’S

Bass fishing is good. Pick any creek and spend the day as the bass are roaming in 3 to 13 feet of water. Use the Shad Raps, the Strike King 3/8 ounce white Colorado and Willow leaf combination and a trick worm ...

Fishbuster Charters' Captain Dave Hanson reported,"Monday's rough seas caused my offshore trip to rescheduleChuck Spears and his son, Jason, fished a catch-and-release trip in Estero Bay with me on Tuesday, 3/21, using live shrimp. They guys released six sheepshead to 13 ...

The fishing yesterday was just plain ole tough. We were able to get a few fish on some deeper grass areas with Producer Swimbaits and Rat-L-Traps but struggled to get any numbers or quality. Today was a different story with my client and I catching several quality fish in an ...

March 23, 2017

Kentucky Lake: Water Level at Kentucky Dam - 355.87 Surface Temperature - 55
Lake Barkley: Water Level at Barkley Dam - 355.85 Surface Temperature - 55

Both lakes are 2 feet over winter pool. Kentucky Dam was generating at ...

New netting method helps crappie management

Managing a fishery isn’t just stocking, creating habitat, fertilizing and adjusting harvest regulations. Biologists must have a true picture of what a population of a certain fish species in the lake looks like before ...

March windscontinue as usual along the Treasure Coast. Winter also has made a visitto our area to cool things down a bit, but it's better than the blizzardconditions up north. It has been a mild winter in spite of the recentcold spell. Expect more windy days ahead and use ...

Today was just another tough day on the Big-G". I had a Father and Son for an all day trip and it was DANG tough all day. We did a lot of moving around today and was able to catch a few in some of the areas we stopped to fish. We focused on deeper eel grass in 8-10 ft. ...

Scott Patton Fishing report for Kentucky Lake
3-18-17

Water Temp 50
Lake level 355.70

It’s been some crazy weather the last week; hopefully that’s the end of that! I am seeing fishing improve everyday and I’m sure it will continue! The ...

The extreme cold kept me off the water most of this past week, either my customers changed their fishing date or I moved some things around. I guess I am just not as tough as I use to be and being out on the water in 20 degree temperatures with a strong northwest wind is not ...

Fishbuster Charters' Captain Dave Hanson reported, "Monday, 3/13, I headed 22 miles offshore with Janice Penland, her grandchildren, Joe and Samantha, and their friends, Mackenzie and Kabon. The group used squid and cut-bait to box twenty keeper lane snapper to 14 inches, ...

CAPTAIN JIM’S CUMBERLAND RIVER FISHING REPORT

Provided by Captain Jim Durham

Owner StriperFun Guide Service, Tennessee Walleye Charters, Superbaittanks.com, Captain Jim Marine Electronics & Captain Jim Lures

Staff Writer for fishin.com ...

Wow what a difference a day makes! The weather was definitely better today and the water was a bit warmer from the slightly warmer temps.

Got out this afternoon for a 4 hour trip and it was worth it. Started and ended in Yellow Creek trolling 18-24 feet of water ...

I had a couple of trips today on the "Big-G". The first one was mainly a scouting trip to learn a few areas to focus on for this gentlemans trip here next week. We did fish for a little while but with the water temps in the mid to upper 50's we had no success in the ...